

To my surprised, he came out well and boy did he, the Beluga looks very aight.Īfter taking a hard lesson on the Boeing 747-146SR, Wing manufacturing is now much simpler, by at most, only consisting a huge fuselage block scaled up to 4x4x4 to function as the aerofoil, instead of using a more complex triangulatinon process, heavily evident from my previous airliners. The Beluga in my opinion are one of the most complex planes I dare to replicate, not only for the irregular shape, but also for the complex nose assembly, having not only look decent, but function as well.

Landing Gear.Landing Gear and Landing Lights The official inquiry, headed by Judge Cecil Margo, was unable to determine the cause of the fire, leading to a number of conspiracy theories being advanced in the following Door open/close An extensive salvage operation was mounted to try to recover the flight data recorders, one of which was recovered from a depth of 4,900 metres (16,100 ft)-the deepest successful salvage operation ever conducted. South African Airways Flight 295, flown by a Boeing 747 named Helderberg was a commercial flight from Taiwan to South Africa that suffered a catastrophic in-flight fire in the cargo area and crashed into the Indian Ocean east of Mauritius on 28 November 1987, killing everyone on board. Deliveries of the 747-8F freighter version to launch customer Cargolux began in October 2011 deliveries of the 747-8I passenger version to Lufthansa began in May 2012. The newest version of the aircraft, the 747-8, is in production and received certification in 2011. The 747-400 passenger version can accommodate 416 passengers in a typical three-class layout, 524 passengers in a typical two-class layout, or 660 passengers in a high density one-class configuration. The 747-400, the most common passenger version in service, has a high-subsonic cruise speed of Mach 0.85–0.855 (up to 570 mph or 920 km/h) with an intercontinental range of 7,260 nautical miles (8,350 mi or 13,450 km). By March 2016, 1,520 aircraft had been built, with 23 of the 747-8 variants remaining on order. The 747 was expected to become obsolete after 400 were sold, but it exceeded critics' expectations with production passing the 1,000 mark in 1993. Boeing did so because the company expected supersonic airliners (development of which was announced in the early 1960s) to render the 747 and other subsonic airliners obsolete, while the demand for subsonic cargo aircraft would be robust well into the future. Boeing designed the 747's hump-like upper deck to serve as a first class lounge or extra seating, and to allow the aircraft to be easily converted to a cargo carrier by removing seats and installing a front cargo door.

It is available in passenger, freighter and other versions. The four-engine 747 uses a double deck configuration for part of its length. First flown commercially in 1970, the 747 held the passenger capacity record for 37 years. Manufactured by Boeing's Commercial Airplane unit in the United States, the original version of the 747 had two and a half times greater capacity than the Boeing 707, one of the common large commercial aircraft of the 1960s. Its distinctive "hump" upper deck along the forward part of the aircraft makes it among the world's most recognizable aircraft, and it was the first wide-body produced. The Boeing 747 is an American wide-body commercial jet airliner and cargo aircraft, often referred to by its original nickname, Jumbo Jet, or Queen of the Skies. I know it is late, but thanks so much for 10K! Here it is, this is a redo of my combi, which is my most successful airplane! This airplane, ZS-SAS, also know as "The Helderburg", was the specific aircraft involved in the crash of South African Airways flight 295.
